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What is Non-point
You cant tell exactly where the pollution is coming from.
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What is the Delaware Watershed?
We live in this watershed.
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What is how much salt is in water?
Define salinity
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What is overfishing?
Catching too many fish is called this.
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What is non-point pollution?
The trash all over the classroom floor.
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What is a divide?
The high land that separates one watershed from another
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What are crabs, birds, snails, fish, shrimp etc.
Name 2 types of animals found in salt marshes.
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What is development?
Name the biggest threat to wetlands.
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What is point pollution?
A car leaking oil.
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What is provide drinking water?
The most important function of our watershed.
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What is ink and camouflage?
Name 2 defense mechanisms of squid
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What is bleaching?
This threat to coral reefs sounds like a cleaning process.
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What is point pollution?
A hog farm leaking waste into a river.
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What is all the land that drains into a river or bay?
Define watershed
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What are coral reefs?
These structures are created by marine invertebrates
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What is eutrophication?
Too many fertilizers going into a lake can cause this.
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What is non-point?
Pesticides running off lawns into lakes and rivers.
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What is the Delaware Bay or Atlantic Ocean?
The Delaware River eventually dumps into this. (Be specific)
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What is phytoplankton
Plankton that can photosynthesize is called this
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What is:
-nutrients enter lake -algae bloom, grow and die -decomposers break down dead plants & animals -use up O2 and kill others.
Describe the process of eutrophication
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